At the end of the very first “At Home” edition of “Saturday Night Live”, some special guests joined the cast to pay tribute to a longtime member of the show’s behind-the-scenes team: Hal Wilner, the show’s music supervisor since 1980.
According to Rolling Stone, Wilner passed away on April 7 of complications consistent with COVID-19. In addition to his role on “SNL”, Wilner was a renowned music producer, producing albums for such artists as Lou Reed, Lucinda Williams and Marianne Faithful. “Everything at ‘SNL’ happens really quickly, except some of the sketches the writers write are more cinematic in quality, and so they need to be scored more like a movie in order for them to make sense and make the jokes land,” said Kate McKinnon of
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